Many of us are deliberately trying to keep our Tetherberry megabyte usage low (international, capped limits, etc). Nothing blows these plans worse than Microsoft pushing a 100 meg update patch while we are tethered. I would love the ability to block access to certain cites while tethered such as Microsoft's update cite, etc.
A list of common urls we might want to block (radio boxed) and the ability to add others would be great.
Instead of turning off Windows Update, tell it to let you know there are updates, but do not download them until you approve the download.
That way you still know about updates, but they will not load to your system until you approve the download.
yes, I would recomend you wait until bug wednesday so on patch thursday you get the more recent update and have less risk of your system.
This is an update. I changed the settings to notify me when there is an update. I've also made it part of my monthly routine to run Microsoft's manual updater additionally.
Listed suggestions would not work for me. Company laptop, IT sets update policies that I can not modify.
All the suggestions about turning off windows update are missing the point - there are VARIOUS services that run in the background and consume bandwidth. It would be nice if there was an easy way to block them.
Maybe an interface like a typical software filewall would work well? When a program wants to access the internet, a popup would come up from tether berry asking if it should be allowed. You can choose to allow it just this once, always, or never. This way you don't have to manually discover and block all the different things running on your machine - as they try to use bandwidth you'll be notified and can take action accordingly.
Too bad your not on a MAC, we have a program called 'Little Snitch' that does exactly that, allows us to block or allow a programs access to the net on a case by case basis. This was initially used to allow the 'Testing' of software packages without them phoning home. I use it for this and bandwidth control when on low bandwidth connections.
This is an old thread, but in case others stumble upon this Mac fan boy's misinformation, there actually exists a firewall program called ZoneAlarm. It's free and actually allows you to set it so you get a prompt when programs try to connect to the Internet.
Turn off automatic updates. This should solve your problem.